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| This page is written by family & friends, dedicated, in loving memory of Ty. |
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| Ty, You are in every day of my life and this is my gift to you... Without having you in my life the past 41 years I would not be the person I am today and without having you in my life for the next 41 years I will never be the same. You never knew the difference you made, and we will never forget . If you were here right now you would say that if I had sense, I would be scary...but you knew I had sense and weren't afraid. Here's to not being afraid to remember.. I love you Bud....Romans 8:28 With all my love, --Sandra |
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| Ty, I will miss you so dearly. The last thing that you said to me that Tuesday night was that you would see me in the morning, the only thing that I didnt know as I waited on you at the farm that Wednesday morning in December is which morning you were talking about. --Matthew Kuykendall, Clemson, SC |
| Never Forgotten poem - submitted by Matthew Kuykendall Tuesday, Jan 7 2003 By: Marc Chatam We will never forget the ways you made us laugh Even though you decided a different path Though your time has come It will take us a while to finally have fun We were all torn in two By what became of you Never Forgotten You�re always on our minds For every Second all the time We wish you were here To help us all overcome our fears Our hearts began to cry When we heard you had died From tears to sorrow Each one of us is not guaranteed tomorrow You will always be apart of us And that will never fade You may be gone today But in our hearts is the place you will always stay May you remain in our hearts, souls & minds forever & ever amen Dedicated to the Kuykendalls In Loving Memory of Ty Glenn Kuykendall 1961-2002 |
| Amanda Kuykendall I love you so much Daddy Sunday Jan 5 2003 I'ill always remember our family vacations every summer going camping together. Daddy always worked, even if it was on the tent or the campsite or the truck, and it was a struggle to get him to relax. I admire that about him so much and I wish I had told him that more often. There are so many things that I wish I had done, but I know that no matter what, he knows I love him and I always will. He was a great man and I will always try to make him proud. I LOVE YOU SO MUCH!!! I MISS YOU TERRIBLY!! |
| Son, it stills feels like a bad dream. Ill never forget you and you know I loved you with all my heart. Youve been gone 1 month today, and it feels like I just talked to you a few hours ago. My only solace is that you are in the presence of Lord. --Mama |
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| I was 6 years old and had just started the first grade. Mrs. Camp was our first grade teacher, at O.P. Earle in Landrum. I didnt want to go to school, I was scared too death!!! But, a few days later, I had made a new friend. He grinned at me with a sweet smile and cute little freckled face. We sat on the window sill together, and held hands. One day, he pulled down the window shade and kissed me, (that was my very first kiss!) I can remember it like it was yesterday! He smiled and said "I love you" and I said "I love you too!" and we laughed out loud as he let go of the shade and it rolled back up. My very first kiss was from Ty Kuykendall at the age of 6. He was my best friend that year.....I have thought about him many times and wondered what ever happened to that cute little boy from Mrs. Camp's class. He was so sweet, soft spoken and kind hearted. I will remember him forever. --Cindy, Columbus, NC |
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| Ty, I remember when I first met you. I think we hit it off immediately - then you introduced me to your best friend (Russell) and I introduced you to mine (Tammy). I will always remember the fun we had at the races and on our double dates. You are the one that always made us laugh. So many years went by and we lost touch - then a few months ago - I got to see you and talk with you again. It was if time had stood still - cause we just picked up and started talking like the years had not gone by. Marty and I were so looking forward to you coming over and cooking out. I just feel so bad that I couldn't see the pain behind your smile. One thing I will always have of you and that is Memories - no one can take that from me. I know you are in a better place where the pain is no more and I took forward to seeing you again. I remember the last time we talked - I told you that you still looked like Randy Travis (or could it be he looked like you). You just laughed as you always did. You are missed!!! Love, Debbie (Good) Driscoll High School and life time friend of Ty and his family. |
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| A Special Poem, submitted by Sandra Nicholson "It Snowed Today" Thursday, Jan. 16, 2003 It snowed today and you weren't here, It seemed I cried a thousand tears. Tears of pain that run so deep They rob me of my food and sleep. Had you been here you would have made me try... You would have said " Now stop, Baby, don't cry ". But instead,I held a child and simply thought of you, And all the things we used to do. The child & I flew down hills and climbed back up, We drank hot chocolate from coffee cups. Tracie and I hugged and held on tight, We talked about trying to make it through another night. You see your going has changed it all, The way we see our days, We look back, and at the present, and question simple ways. Should we go here, should we go there? We have to show others how much we care. We must show the little ones, life will still be But without you, there is only three, Terry, Tracie & Me. |
| To never allow me to forget my most favorite childhood memory of me and Ty and Terry and the snow,I am blessed with a scar. The scar has always been there but I never appreciated it before I grew older. This memory was from when we were under the age of 10. It had snowed and we were using the new sleds (Red Flyers with two runners) that we had gotten for Christmas to sled down the hill behind the trailer on Butter Street. The snow began to melt and so Ty began to think of ingenious ways to make the sledding better. (Seemed before now, he always knew a better way of doing things). Ty knew of two ways to make the sledding better (Ty usally had a back-up plan) # 1. Ty knew that it was colder in the early morning than it was by the time we were able to get out on the hill and that the melted snow would freeze, building somewhat of a base. To create the base Ty got gallon milk jugs ( Always plentiful when Mack is in the house)and had Terry fill them up with water, Terry placed them at the back door and very early in the morning it was my job to go out, cross the yard and pour them at intervals down the hill. Ty had made little cut out places on the side of where we sledded for me to go to and pour the water out. This water could not all bepoured from the top or we would or we would have a big frozen place only at the top. This could only be done in the morning because Merica made us go to bed early. Ty said he should not have to do it because he came up with the idea and because he did not like mornings. Terry could not do it because he was the smallest and because Merica would have beat us if we sent Terry out in the cold,, so I did it and at the time and even still was just glad to have been trusted to have been a part of the plan. ( There was honor even as children to have been entrusted with being a part of one of Ty's plans. To have been excluded because I was a girl would have made me mad and so I carried water down the hill, in the cold and poured it out to make a base) Sledding was awesome and stopping was for sure or you ended up in the trash pile. Walking back up was done at the edge of the woods where you had skinny little trees to hold on to. The second part where I got the scar came in to play as we wanted to go faster. Again Ty had a plan.. he had saw on TV how skaters and sledders used wax to go on the runners of their sled for speed. (probably ice skaters ) He decided that if we would put wax on the runners of his sled then he would try it and let us know. Terry was comissioned to obtain matches from the house and things we could melt (matches were put up from me and Ty, but Terry could sneak them because he was not suspected and they left them out around him.) |
| FOR WHAT ITS WORTH, TY HAS IN HIS HAND A BOOK OF MATCHES THAT I HELD ALL MORNING ON THE DAY OF HIS FUNERAL. I HAVE WITH ME A PACK AT ALL TIMES THAT HAD BEEN PLACED IN HIS HANDS, LEFT FOR A LITTLE WHILE,AND THEN GIVEN BACK TO ME. WE BOTH KNOW THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD, BUT ALONG THE WAY WE GAVE EACH OTHER PLENTY OF LIGHTS AND SHARED MANY FIRES. and so back to the story... |
| In the wellhouse where we could not catch anything on fire... Ty held the sled while I held the plastic trash bag. Ty lit the bag and instead of it dripping on to the runners it melted to my hand. Ty jerked it off and put red mud on my hand to cool it off. The mud was kinda spread around so the burn was covered and we could get by Merica and Mama without being questioned. We were too young to think of infection until it happened. Ty put what we call "monkeyblood" on it for me until we got caught up with. It was healing by then and Lord knows they probably had at least two or three more reasons to whip us, so I don't remember getting a spanking for it. I never look at my hand or see a sled with runners that I don't think about it. Now the memory is precious. Thanks for reading all your Please keep us in your prayers... My next memory involved Mack and Merica taking us on a ride to see the snow. We had made it to Landrum and was headed back to Spartanburg when the car broke down in what is now a closed rest area right before you get to Inman. Merica was about froze to death, Terry and Tracie were too young to be sent to walk for help so Ty and me were supposed to go and call someone to come and help. Mack was staying at the car and working on it. At the time the new gas stations were not present along the interstate. We were supposed to go to the pay phone and back. On the way to the pay phone, this truck driver saw us walking through the parking lot and asked if we were cold. Duh, even I knew that answer,,,so we hopped up in the cab and told him what was wrong. He used his CB to call for help but we decided that until we saw the help coming that we would just sit in there with him. It was warm...Well to make a long story short, Ty and I got into major trouble for getting into the cab in the first place and even more for not returning with the news that help was on the way. Merica though we had been abducted and was in tears. We did not even think of that since we were together. |
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| Apparently they were too cold to give us a whipping. But I also remember that they did not care what the inside of that trucker's cab looked like. --Sandra Nicholson |
| Ty alway gave me a special hug and kiss when he seen me. He always had that way of making you feel so much better. I miss that smile, hug, and kiss you alway treated me the same each time we saw each other. You never treated me different, so many times I have felt that I just did not fit in. I may not fit in now but that does not take away the pain I feel each day with out you. Ty I miss you so much and no it does not get easier and I think of you ever day. Miss you and love ya your sister-in -law, Lisa Kuykendall Sunday, Jan 19, 2003 |
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| Ty, You were more than a cousin to me. You were an uplifter in my life. Hard for others to have seen but easy for me to know that the little things you did toward me were special. I always got a hug and a wink everytime I seen you. You always gave me the sweetest words of encouagement.. I miss you alot.. Tonia Monday, Jan. 20, 2003 |
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